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What is your current opinion on Unreal Engine 5? Between Digital Foundry, content creators, and people on social media, everyone appears to be constantly attacking UE5 for performance issues (stuttering, frame rate, etc.). Is this criticism warranted, or is it more a case of developers still getting used to UE5 and its complexities (meaning it will likely improve in time)?

Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2025

The Entity Component System of the Unreal Engine (every actor is a bag of individual components) allows developers to glom nanite meshes onto just about anything and everything including characters, making it very powerful and quick to stand up various different visuals.

Engine

Engine Engineering Dev Bug

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

By default, the 3D Shader of Cocos will multiply the tile Tilling and add the Offset, and it also supports the flip repair for RenderTexture. Use the water wave effect on the 3D meshes This is only for 3D planes with tiled UV Mapping. meshes) { let dis = geometry.intersect.rayModel(this. x,waveFactor.y-uv0.y); node; m4_0.set(node.worldMatrix);

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Point and Click Sprite

Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In Unity the basic cube uses the same texture for all faces, but in Godot each face is unique, so to tile the texture so the complete texture is on each face, set the U,V, and W values to 3, 2 and 1 respectively. In the Scene panel right-click on the Tile node and click Add Child Node. Search for mesh and again choose MeshInstance3D.

Point and Click

Point and Click Texture Mesh Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Godot XR progress update June 2021

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Finger tracking itself is fully supported both through updating orientation of meshes, for which a sample scene is included in the plugin, and through animating a skeleton and bone deformation. Mobile GPUs are very different from desktop GPU, to make better use of limited access to fast memory mobile GPUs use a tile based architecture.

Tile

Tile Render Prototyping Writing

Advanced GPU optimization techniques in Unity 6 • Insights from Unite 2024

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

An example highlighted during the talk showed that using On-Tile Deferred Rendering for mobile platforms led to a 30% reduction in memory writes in test environments, demonstrating a meaningful improvement in performance. These techniques reduce the memory footprint of static meshes and improve memory efficiency for dynamic scenes.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Culling Pixel Render

Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Every part must be set accordingly to the tiles, that size is 30x30x10. To solve the problem we rearranged the mesh and added some edge loops along track parts. Adjusting mesh, rig and skinning needed a couple of iterations. We needed to simplify the mesh and decrease the amount of tiny details for the sake of readability.

Art

Art Prop Mesh Racing

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ).

Tile

Tile Render Shaders Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Mesh: Add a center_offset property to both plane primitive and quad primitive ( GH-48763 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Atlas support returns to Godot 3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2019

When working on tile-sets, it's normal to have everything already drawn to a single texture but if the level uses a lot of separate images, then using an atlas may make sense to improve performance. It is not possible to batch meshes either. Here are such cases: Batching. so I can soon move to work on Vulkan.

Animation

Animation Animation Texture Polygon

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Auto-tiling in tile maps. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. This does not let you use SVGs directly as 2D meshes yet, but it's on the roadmap for future releases. Bullet Physics backend.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lesson 1 Transcript So as you saw in the last module, the roles of game designer and game programmer can very easily mesh together, and this is very true in smaller companies where the designer and the programmer might be the same person or the designer might help out in programming to help things continue along.

Game Design

Game Design Game Designer Tile Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap). The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Several new optimization techniques are also at your disposal, such as occlusion culling , automatic mesh LOD , and manual HLOD using visibility ranges , made possible by Joan Fons ( JFonS ), and Juan. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. has been added by Je06jm.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25 The new NVIDIA UE 4.25 Branches offer all of the benefits of mainline UE4.25 and UE4.26.1,

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Technology

Game Developers Network

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

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Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Godot XR progress update June 2021

Advanced GPU optimization techniques in Unity 6 • Insights from Unite 2024

Little Racer – 3D Art

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Atlas support returns to Godot 3.2

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

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